Risk

I know I have written about risk in the past but I found a quote that I resonate with. I am writing a sermon based on the Parable of the Talents (from the Message version) and the sermon title is "Quit Playing It Safe". So as I am writing this I come across an amazing quote which I love. It is by Teddy Roosevelt.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt.

So whatever happens with this church plant...whether the end is triumph of high achievement or failure while daring greatly....at least I won't be with the cold and timid souls who didn't risk anything in their lives.